Bringing civic tech to Taiwan's coronavirus pandemic response [audio]
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Re: Bringing civic tech to Taiwan's coronavirus pandemic response [audio]
#2It's hard to tell why you might want to listen to this from just the title:
"But Taiwan has also been taking a relatively experimental approach to the pandemic with technology. Like working with civic hackers to code its way out of the pandemic. Today on the show, we dive into Taiwan's pandemic policies and ask: Would the U.S. ever take a similar approach?"
Re: Bringing civic tech to Taiwan's coronavirus pandemic response [audio]
#3It's hard to tell why you might want to listen to this from just the title: "But Taiwan has also been taking a relatively experimental approach to the pandemic with technology. Like working with civic hackers to code its way out of the pandemic. Today on the show, we dive into Taiwan's pandemic policies and ask: Would the U.S. ever take a similar approach?"
Things like the "where do I get masks" map don't seem antithetical to personal privacy the way a contact tracing tool is. That's pretty low-hanging fruit that we didn't appear to make any attempt to pick.
Re: Bringing civic tech to Taiwan's coronavirus pandemic response [audio]
#4It's hard to tell why you might want to listen to this from just the title: "But Taiwan has also been taking a relatively experimental approach to the pandemic with technology. Like working with civic hackers to code its way out of the pandemic. Today on the show, we dive into Taiwan's pandemic policies and ask: Would the U.S. ever take a similar approach?"
I'll address why one would listen: to learn about some ways not to be the epicenter of a pandemic ever again.
Re: Bringing civic tech to Taiwan's coronavirus pandemic response [audio]
#5It's hard to tell why you might want to listen to this from just the title: "But Taiwan has also been taking a relatively experimental approach to the pandemic with technology. Like working with civic hackers to code its way out of the pandemic. Today on the show, we dive into Taiwan's pandemic policies and ask: Would the U.S. ever take a similar approach?"
Things like the "where do I get masks" map don't seem antithetical to personal privacy the way a contact tracing tool is. That's pretty low-hanging fruit that we didn't appear to make any attempt to pick.
Volunteer groups like findthemasks did, but in a get-PPE-to-hospitals context.
I am unaware of a US implementation of a direct copy of the Taiwanese webapp. In the US through at least May, health authorities were scrambling to get enough PPE to keep the healthcare system functional.
Re: Bringing civic tech to Taiwan's coronavirus pandemic response [audio]
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Re: Bringing civic tech to Taiwan's coronavirus pandemic response [audio]
#7The US government is full of corruption and closed-source companies basically destroying almost all open source collaborative efforts based on greed. Unless a leader steps in that truly understands this and works to get rid of it, then I don't think the US will ever be able to compete.
Re: Bringing civic tech to Taiwan's coronavirus pandemic response [audio]
#8It's hard to tell why you might want to listen to this from just the title: "But Taiwan has also been taking a relatively experimental approach to the pandemic with technology. Like working with civic hackers to code its way out of the pandemic. Today on the show, we dive into Taiwan's pandemic policies and ask: Would the U.S. ever take a similar approach?"
read the transcript, link at the bottom.
The issue isn't that we don't have leadership that would work with "groups" who do similar to what was done in Taiwan the issue is government would want control over the groups to include who was in them. pretty much they would drive the innovation right out the door.
then they would turn around and clamp down on anyone who dared do similar work that was not part of the government sanctioned cooperative effort.
Re: Bringing civic tech to Taiwan's coronavirus pandemic response [audio]
#9Keep in mind that a key feature of government is having a monopoly on violence within its jurisdiction...
Re: Bringing civic tech to Taiwan's coronavirus pandemic response [audio]
#10It's hard to tell why you might want to listen to this from just the title: "But Taiwan has also been taking a relatively experimental approach to the pandemic with technology. Like working with civic hackers to code its way out of the pandemic. Today on the show, we dive into Taiwan's pandemic policies and ask: Would the U.S. ever take a similar approach?"
Things like the "where do I get masks" map don't seem antithetical to personal privacy the way a contact tracing tool is. That's pretty low-hanging fruit that we didn't appear to make any attempt to pick.
Not to mention the scrapped plan to just simply mail masks to every US household:
https://www.postal-reporter.com/blog/white-house-axed-usps-p...